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We'll just have to disagree on this point. I think recommendations from a total stranger is a time and effort on both sides. Let's look at this in the context of the work place. If I'm hiring someone, I want to have a recommendation from someone who has worked with the prospective employee-- not a stranger who has no idea what his or her working habits are like.
I also don't think you're understanding my point. When you come from the north east, and nobody you have ever known has ever been a member of a GLO, chances are, you're not going to be frothing at the bit to join one.
All I knew about GLOs was from what I saw in the movie "Animal House." I didn't have a very high opinion of sororities and fraternities because I didn't know anything about them other than from what I saw in the movies.
You are making a big assumption when you say that women need to do all this research before going to a big sorority school. You're assuming that they want to belong to one before knowing anything about them, and you're assuming that even if they DO know about them, that they would know where to go for this research.
In my case, I transferred to UF and didn't get interested in a sorority until I was exposed to them truly by accident. A friend who I met at UF begged me to go with her to keep her company during rush. Honestly, I didn't even know what rush was! I had never heard the term. I had no intentions of joining, because I had met a gang of friends in the dorm, and just didn't see the point. Ignorance is bliss.
But, after going to a few rush parties with my friend, I was so impressed by what I learned about these groups, that I found myself wanting to be a part of them. Fortunately for me, recs were not required when I was at UF, and I was invited back without them... and got a bid without one.
I think it's truly unfortunate that women who have no exposure to the Greek system prior to going to college find that they're at a big disadvantage should they decide to join one once they're there.
Maybe fraternities have a better system of rushing. It seems to be more fair.
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